Southern Hung Gar

Description :
Strong, quick, and practical is the essence of Tiger-Crane. Every movement has at least two or three self defense applications, or more accurate fighting techniques. Defense and attack are simultaneous in each movement, with emphasis on crushing and breaking the opponent's defense or attack.. "Hung Family" Tiger-Crane develops a strong lower body, iron hard blocks, powerful low kicks and sweeps, and numbing hand attacks using punches, chops, spear hands, forearms, elbows, and shoulders. "Hung" translates to mean "stand and tall strong with integrity."

History :
Hung Family (Hung Gar) Kung Fu originates from the city of Fukien, in southern China, where a Shaolin monk, "Master Gee See", taught the Shaolin Tiger style to a tea merchant, Hung Hei Goon. The Tiger style is a very effective hard style martial art that builds and uses strong legs and arms to physically over power an opponent. Master Hung then combined his Tiger style with his wife's family's White Crane style, which is a softer style using speed and evasive maneuvers to defeat a stronger opponent. This created a good balance, hard and soft, direct and evasive. Master Hung, always looking to improve, added elements from the Leopard, Snake, and Dragon styles. The leopard uses cunning, lighting fast multiple attacks, grabs and breaks. The snake uses pin point accuracy to vital areas, coming from the ground up. The Dragon uses creativity to off balance the opponent.

Benefits :
Tiger Crane uses hard Chi Kung to faster develop internal and external strength. It builds strong flexible legs and hips, developing a strong center of gravity, which enables one to attack and defend from a position of strength, and makes it difficult to be thrown off balance. This is an Earth element style that concentrates on muscle strength and your "root" to the Earth.

Head Instructor Troy and Instructor Mathew
demonstrate "Shoot the Tiger"